Good point

Goddam that's nerdy

this is so clever ... i spent 3 hours doing it and had to use itertools :(

I think this is the best practice,since recursive method is the first thing that came up to my mind.Huhhhhh

Python's match() only returns true if the regex matches at the beginning of the string (this is, IMO, insane). The tests should be rewritten to use search() instead.

Yeah... I've had a look, but without knowing Python, it's a bit tricky guessing what the problem is. @jhoffner was the one that wrote it, so perhaps he can have a look..?

In the Python vrsion of the kata, your regex has to match the whole string. That must be a bug in the translation?

You don't have to match the whole string; you just have to make any kind of match. For the JavaScript version, Mod4.test(str) is used, so as long as some kind of match is made, you'll pass. Not sure about the other language versions (I didn't write them), but they should be the same.

Which language? I only wrote the original JavaScript version...